How the heck does one get CAUGHT doing that?
Oh my.
We recently bought some land where bald eagles nest in the winter. I don’t think we’ll be bringing the cats along when we camp on the weekends.
Some pets are simply incompatible with certain environments.
I gotta say I’m a bit conflicted over this one. On one hand pigeons are dirty disgusting loathsome flying rats and if the guy were my neighbor I’d really hate it, but on the other they are actual livestock and the hawks (predators) were killing the guy’s livestock. This bit about letting predators kill your livestock while you are forbidden by law to protect your property is just plain wrong.
Clearly a hate crime...
Because we know what would happen to the pigeons if they went after the hawk!
/s
I met a guy who knew an heir to the Chrysler fortune and she raised pigeons to help train her hunting dogs and on her estate she had a literal pit full of dead Redtail Hawks that used to prey on her pigeons. Her sentencing by the judge was hilarious, community service at a homeless shelter kitchen where the heir supervised her help staff do the kitchen work, till the judge found out.
Dude failed to properly execute the SSS.
Man, if you have never seen a hawk catch a pigeon you don’t know watch the words “vicious attack” means. I suppose you could consider it merciful for the pigeon but they know their business and they don’t waste time.
No sympathy for this person. There are several ways to mitigate losses from hawks or other birds of prey. Did he try any of them? Instead he lures hawks in by crating pigeons, and then shoots hawks when they become trapped trying to get to the pigeons.
He got what he deserved.
I can sympathize. We keep purple martins in summer. It’s alot of work and $$. Hawks love picking the them off. Migrate? They know where the buffet is and don’t leave. English sparrows are another pain. But I’m able to kill them since they aren’t protected.
You should be able to kill whatever you want on your own property, even more so if it poses a threat to you, your family, pets or livestock. How can anyone call themselves a conservative and support the Federal government intervening in something like this? What specifically enumerated Constitutional power gives them the authority to tell you can’t kill a predatory pest on your own property that is destroying your property and causing real unrecoverable losses? I’m shocked that some folks here are siding with the Fed.
Too bad he didn’t set up a wind-farm, probably could have gotten an exemption to whack any number of raptors..... Wonder if a private individual would be prosecuted if his windmill was found to be killing birds?